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She became associate director of the project, taught herself Swedish and traveled to the University of Lund to study the Swedish legal system. Following this experience, she finally received several offers from major law firms, but instead returned to Columbia, to work on the law school’s Project on International Procedure.

District Court for the Southern District of New York, where she served from 1959 to 1961. Ginsburg was eventually offered a clerkship with Judge Edmund G.

Future United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her daughter, Jane, seen here in the 1960s. Although Professor Albert Sachs of Harvard personally recommended her to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, the Justice declined to offer her the post of law clerk, apparently too uncomfortable with the thought of a woman in his chambers. Of the 12 firms with which she interviewed, not one offered her a job. A firm that had employed her between terms at Harvard failed to provide a permanent position. Today, Jane is a Columbia Law School professor.ĭespite this stellar academic record, she found her sex a barrier to career advancement. 1958: Ruth and Marty play with three-year-old daughter, Jane. Ginsburg graduated from Columbia tied for first place in her class. Serving on both the Harvard and Columbia law reviews was an unprecedented achievement for any law student, male or female. At Columbia too, she won a seat on the law review. To keep her young family together, Ruth Ginsburg transferred to Columbia University in Manhattan for her last year of law school. In the next few years, he became a highly regarded expert on tax law. Martin Ginsburg made a complete recovery, and after completing his studies at Harvard, joined a law firm in New York City. Even with the added responsibility of caring for her ailing husband and their child, she won a coveted seat on the Harvard Law Review. During his illness, Ruth attended his classes, as well as her own, and typed all his papers. While attending Harvard, Martin Ginsburg was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The law dean asked all the women students to justify taking places at the school that could be occupied by men. One of only nine women in a class of more than 500, Ruth encountered resistance from some of the older faculty. (Photo: Supreme Court of the United States) He would always be the chef in the family. While stationed there, he worked his way through the Escoffier guide to French cooking. Marty served at Artillery Village in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where this photograph was taken. The Ginsburgs had just wed when Marty was drafted into the U.S. Following his discharge, he started legal studies at Harvard, and 14 months after the birth of their daughter, Jane, Ruth too entered Harvard Law School. They were married shortly after Ruth Bader’s graduation, and lived in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Ginsburg completed his military service. It was also at Cornell that she met her future husband, Martin Ginsburg, on a blind date. Here, she delivers a sermon.Īt Cornell University, Ruth Bader earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors in government and distinction in all subjects. In 1948, at age fifteen, Ruth was the camp rabbi at Che-Na-Wah, in Minerva, New York. Celia Bader suffered from poor health throughout Ruth’s teen years, dying of cancer the day before Ruth graduated from James Madison High School.

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Bader never pursued a career of her own, she encouraged Ruth’s scholarly and professional ambitions, taking her to the library every week to keep her supplied with books. (United States Supreme Court)Īlthough Nathan Bader never attended high school, he achieved some success as a fur manufacturer, while Celia worked in the home and helped with the family business. Her mother was stricken with cancer when Ruth was a girl, and died the day before Ruth’s high school graduation. Her father was a furrier during the height of the Depression, when customers were scarce. Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn on March 15, 1933. The Baders’ first daughter died when Ruth was only two. Her mother Celia was born in the United States to immigrant parents newly arrived from Austria her father Nathan immigrated to the United States from Russia at age 13.

Ruth Joan Bader was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

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